I was trying to play around with some looping in ecasound and I noticed
that .ewf files were not acting properly. This appears in both latest
devel release as well as the version in CVS.

I just looked at the code briefly but I found that placing a call to
load() in audioio-ewf.cpp restored the functionality. Hopefully this was
not disabled for a good reason and I've also found the right place to
put this.